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David Chadwick (1945-)
dchad = David Reich Chadwick, often signed DC or dc
Buddhist name: 機山禅雄 Kisan Zenyū
David Chadwick (born 1945) is a Soto Zen priest and author in the lineage of the late Shunryu Suzuki-roshi. He began his Zen practice in 1966 at the San Francisco Zen Center and was ordained a priest in 1971, the year before Suzuki-roshi passed. http://www.cuke.com/pdf-2013/d/ordination-ceremony.pdf He continued his training with Zentatsu Richard Baker and assisted in helping the Zen Center develop its many business ventures and practice site startups. He is the author of the Suzuki-roshi's authoritative biography and other works.
On a summer day in 1966, at the age of 21, I decided to check out one last meditation group before heading to India to seek a guru. I rang the bell of San Francisco Zen Center's temple on Bush Street and soon forgot my plans for India. I marvel now at how fortunate I was to have walked through that doorway, met Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, and all the inspiring fellow students, friends, and teachers in the times that followed.
Two decades after Suzuki's death, I started to collect and organize the stories and lectures from which was born Crooked Cucumber: the Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki. Twenty years since then, this effort continues - adding to and working with the archive of his life and teaching, collecting the memories of those who knew him and of that unique and amazing time.
http://cuke.com/donate/cca-appeal-pzi.htm
http://www.cuke.com/dchad/writ/misc/dchad.html
Present! - Zen Failure (28'50")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyp4pxbTkqo
Works
"Thank You and OK!: An American Zen Failure in Japan"
Shambhala Publications (2007).
Originally Penguin Arkana (1994) > PDF
http://www.cuke.com/ty&ok/ty-home.html
David Chadwick, a Texas-raised wanderer, college dropout, bumbling social activist, and hobbyhorse musician, began his study under Shunryu Suzuki Roshi in 1966. In 1988 Chadwick flew to Japan to begin a four-year period of voluntary exile and remedial Zen education. In Thank You and OK! he recounts his experiences both inside and beyond the monastery walls and offers insightful portraits of the characters he knew in that world—the bickering monks, the patient abbot, the trotting housewives, the ominous insects, the bewildered bureaucrats, and the frustrating English-language students—as they worked inexorably toward initiating him into the mysterious ways of Japan. Whether you're interested in Japan, Buddhism, or exotic travel writing, this book is great fun.
the whole book going here chapter by chapter
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
1 COMING
AWAKE IN THE DARK
SULPHUR IN THE AIR
RIDES TO HOGOJI
GANGBUSTER ZEN
TITLES OF RESPECT
SOUNDS OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD
MEETING OLD FRIENDS*
*能忍 Nōnin Donald Chowaney (1941-2022), abbot (retired), Nebraska Zen Center/Heartland Temple, Omaha, NE
Nonin Chowaney Roshi is charmingly and accurately described in David Chadwick's memoir Thank You and Okay, where he is given the name "Norman."
[James Ishmael Ford, Zen master who? : a guide to the people and stories of Zen, 2006, p. 135.]2 SETTLING
ON A SLOW TRAIN HOME
KOBASHI TO THE RESCUE
OLD SCROLLS, NEW MATCHES
JENGLISH AND ENGLESE
LAUNCH AND LUNCH
TEA TIME
JAKUSHIN ON THE BOTTOM
MARITAL BOWS
UNDER THE BEAMS
ORYOKI THE TRUE WAY
REMEDIAL BREATHING
BEANING THE SPIRITS
CREEPIN’ MUKADE
KOJI, BOUND BY DUTY3 WALKING
TAKUHATSU, “TO ENTRUST THE BOWL”
LEARNING THE BUREAUCRACY
MOTHER'S DAY CARD
KOBASHI BLOWS IT
TAIZEN SMOOTHS IT OUT
A LETTER & A TABLE
A WALK WITH FATHER SAM
HUSBANDS AND WIVES
LION AND ROCKS
KATAGIRI
READING IN THE RAIN
SMOKE IN THE KITCHEN4 LIVING
AT ISHITAKI’S
THE FOURTH GRAPE
A STITCH IN SPACE, pp. 217-219
LECTURE PREP, pp. 219-222
KNOCKIN' 'EM DEAD
IT’S THE ENVIRONMENT, STUPA
THE GOOD WITCH
DOUBTING THE SUN'S SON
MOO IF YA LOVE BUDDHA
BURYING GARBAGE
THE NINJA AND THE CLOCK
THE BODHISATTVA'S VOW
SAVING THE SALAMANDER
MR. TEN SQUARE FEET
SHUKO TELLS ALL
OUR DUST RUNNETH OVER5 LOOKING
DRIVING ME CRAZY
READING PALMS
DUELING SUTRAS
JUST ME AND MY BROOM
ELECTION RESULTS
CLEANING GENE
NORMAN GETS HIS WAY
GANGSTERS IN TH'MIDST6 DANCING
PREPARATION FOR HOYO
ATTRACTING CROWDS OF DERISION
SERGEANT IN ROBES
INCIPIENT FRUIT OF LABOR
GOOD FRIDAY THE 13TH
THE HEARTLESS SUTRA
PERIOD THEATER
ADDRESSING WOMEN
CUT THE MOZO
GOODBYE TO KATAGIRI
LSD NO, WHALE MEAT YES7 GOING
EDDIE DUCHIN IN THE POST OFFICE
PRISONER OF PEACE
A CHAT WITH KOJI
THE TYRANT OF NARA
A VISIT AND A CALL
WE REMEMBER KATAGIRI
GETTING WET TOGETHER
A FINAL SURPRISE
WORSHIP IN THE RUINS
VITAL ENERGY
BIRTHDAY BOY
I'M OFF
8 GONE BEYOND
ASHES TO DUST
TRAIN REFLECTIONS
A LETTER FROM NORMANEPILOGUE
BUILDING A FUMIDAI
ONE DROP
Crooked Cucumber: the Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki.
Broadway Books. (1999).
http://www.cuke.com/Crooked%20Cucumber/crooked%20cucumber%20main%20page.html
http://www.cuke.com/Crooked Cucumber/notes-on-cc/notes-on-crooked-cucumber.htm
Zen Is Right Here: Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki,
Author of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind.
Shambhala Publications (2007).
http://www.shambhala.com/zen-is-right-here.html
Originally "To Shine One Corner of the World: Moments with Shunryu Suzuki." (2001) Broadway Books.
http://www.cuke.com/ZIRH/ZIRH.html
Shunryu Suzuki
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind at Forty - annotated un-cut version
Afterword by David Chadwick
http://www.cuke.com/zmbm/zmbm_at_40.html
Some other not so Zen works:
To Find the Girl from Perth (2008)
Color Dreams for To Find the Girl from Perth (2009)
Calligraphy by 鈴木 (祥岳) 俊隆 Suzuki (Shōgaku) Shunryū (1904-1971)
Back side of David Chadwick lay rakusu with kanji written by Suzuki received at the lay ordination at San Francisco Zen Center, 一九七〇年八月廿五日 August 25, 1970 for a number of people - like 20 or more.
Reading from the right is the robe chant (see below), the last line is the Dharma name for DC - 機山 禅雄 居士 Kisan Zenyū koji (lay person), penultimate line: 禅心寺 Zenshinji (Japanese name for Tassajara) 俊隆 Shunryū 叟 sō (old man).
搭袈裟偈
大哉解脱服
無相福田衣
披奉如来教
廣 度諸衆生
Takkesa ge
Dai sai gedap-puku
musō fuku den e
hi bu nyorai kyo
ko do shoshu jo.
Robe Chant
Vast is the robe of liberation
Field far beyond form and emptiness
Wearing the Tathagata's teaching
Saving all beings
Links
http://cuke.com/dchad/index.htm
http://www.cuke.com/dchad/writ/misc/dchad.html
http://www.cuke.com/dchad-writ/dc-writings-index.html#gsc.tab=0
DC Zen sites:
cuke.com
shunryusuzuki.com (all of his extant lecture transcripts and audio, video, with photos to come)
zmbm.net (a site for Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind)Other DC websites:
cuke-annex.com - try to get most the non Zen stuff here like the site below:
defusermusic.com - Site for music written and performed by dc
